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Lot 1144 Dα

A large Cologne Renaissance silver beaker

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 7.000 € - 8.000 €
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A large Cologne Renaissance silver beaker

Conical beaker with flaring rim on a moulded basal ring. Engraved throughout with birds amid flowering tendrils and three medallions with allegorical figures of women as Caritas, Fides, and Prudentia. The base engraved with a house mark "ARW" in a laurel surround. H 16.7 cm, weight 301 g.
Marks of Master with the House Mark, around 1650.

Provenance

From a French private collection; purchased in the 1970s.

Literature

Cf. a beaker by this master in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, illus. in: Bemmann, Rheinisches Tafelsilber, Rheinbach-Merzbach 1992, no. 319. Cf. also Irmscher, Das Kölner Goldschmiedehandwerk 1550 - 1800, Cologne 2005, no. 77, 81 ff., and for this assay mark no. 2b f.